Opinion: Accountability

Ofsted complaints procedures are a cause for concern

Our experience shows a regulator so intent on being right, it simply can’t admit to getting it wrong, writes...

JL Dutaut
Nick Osborne
SEND review

SEND green paper: a chance to call out failures and mobilise

I’ve seen the system from every angle and none is flattering, writes Barney Angliss. It’s time to demand better...

JL Dutaut
Barney Angliss
Opinion: Curriculum

Inclusive Britain: a chance to right our history curriculum

A review will finally support teachers and schools to put our ‘hidden heritage’ in its rightful place across the...

JL Dutaut
Blondel Cluff
The Knowledge

Research: What support might students need with ‘normal’ exams?

Students will need extra support to prepare for exams that may feel normal to us but are completely new...

JL Dutaut
Tee McCaldin and Hannah Wilkinson
key stage 4

Are KS4 performance statistics still doing their job?

The office for statistics regulation is reviewing the use of KS4 performance stats and you can be part of...

JL Dutaut
Emily Carless and Nicky Pearce
Design and technology

Low take-up of design and technology threatens the government’s ambitions

Government ambitions to stimulate technology, engineering and manufacturing could be threatened by dwindling take-up of relevant subjects, writes Sam...

JL Dutaut
Sam Tuckett
Edtech

Let’s learn from Estonia and say goodbye to the old normal

Instead of romanticising our education system, we would better serve teachers and pupils by following the example of new...

JL Dutaut
Emma Slater
Edtech

We can and must do better to scale up innovations

There is a thriving market of start-ups offering educational solutions, writes David Jaffa, but a fragmented system means schools...

JL Dutaut
David Jaffa
Alternative provision

PRUs prevent criminality – so let’s look beyond the tropes

New research disproves the damaging tropes about alternative provision’s link to crime, writes Steve Howell, so let’s ditch them...

JL Dutaut
STEVE HOWELL